FREE Character Transfers are Coming!

Good plan. This is why I continually say we should let BioWare develop this system as they see fit.

Instead of arbitrarily shutting entire servers down and causing serious havoc with Customer Service having to take countless calls about "How can you force me to lose my original name?" questions and demands, they've designed the transfer system with a migration idea already in mind.

This will encourage a lot of players strewn about on the less populated servers to be guided in a rather orderly fashion toward some of the more populated servers so that instead of everyone overloading The Fatman or some other server, instead there will be a good mix distributed across perhaps the top 6-10 biggest servers.

And then of course a paid service to transfer anywhere you wish implemented sometime after.

Once again, sounds like a smart plan. It's a server merge strategy without the forced merging of all of those accounts who have gone latent and might not have a chance to chime in.

the "process" was manually transferred batches of players. it wasn't an automated system. thats why the delay

I have no idea if that's even true or not....but it doesn't really matter does it? What incentive do those playing on dead servers have to continue waiting? Not to mention rerolling is a pain in the @#$@#, especially if you really liked your Main. Redoing that story line and quests? hehe the stories aren't that good.

I'm good until 6/18/12 thanks to the free month, so i'm not crying cancel! Just saying I won't be playing much at all and i'll be checking out other games which, if they are any good, would mean I probably wouldn't be coming back.

Heh, summer doesn't technically start in NA until the 21st or so of June (summer solstice).

if cross server pvp is coming earleir then transfers its ok for me
but if cross server wz will come even after transfers like june(if they meant early summer by that i assume it ll be even on july) etc sorry its too late for me and for a lot of ppl.
NOT EVERYONE PLAYS ON FATMAN and no chance of rerolling while we stuck with our guild here with many alts/legacy etc...

i will try to enjoy game till my sub/free time ends with 20 ppl in fleet and nothing else to do after 1 day of raid to clear denova hm/pilgrim in a week so yes gj bw !!
i have never seen a company and developers feeding haters or creating new haters that much with all their responses to community

Yes, it will because people will pay for it. Those who played WoW have proven this as a fact repeatedly.

Bioware didn't screw up the population distribution, the players did. Bioware is trying to fix the problem caused by the players.

Yes, BioWare did screw up everything.If They wan to fix it, give us trasnfer much sooner, maybe in 1 or 2 weeks?

It never ceases to amazon how much Bioware can mess simple things up. Really, you do think anyone is going to transfer from a populated server like the big 4 to a underpopulated dead economy server? Even if you merge them it still wouldn't be enough as people would need to pay to reunite legacies. Free transfers within the next month is the only chance this game has after the failure of Bioware to adequately plan for the inevitable contraction. Paid transfer only anger those who were faithful enough to stick with light servers.

Game is fine, THEY just started with way too many servers, ...it allowed everyone to get online right at the gate (for almost everyone)...this is a good move..and will consolidate, remove some servers, and increase the population on servers(those that are low)...

The way I see it, the biggest problem that BW got itself into was opening too many servers too early. In response to customer pressure (and perhaps EA pressure), BW opened about 20-30 new servers within mere weeks of launch. This really diluted the population concentration, an error that BW is paying for now.